[Stoves] binder for char briquettes

[Richard Stanley]

Martin, 
...or you could just use the neem leaf, chopped and lightly pulped in ambient temp water to form a fibrous pithy (heavy soup-like) slurry  for encapsulating the charcoal. Because this process happens at amboent temperaures and relatively low pressures, the leaf retains the aroma of the neem. When the dried briquette is then stacked  next to the stove it will  lemit this aroma quite effectively without smoke. The then super dried briquette is tossed into the fire for near instant ignition…

Richard Stanley
www.legacyfound.org
 
On Jul 17, 2014, at 2:34 PM, Boll, Martin Dr. wrote:



Best greetings from Germany!

Just reading your posting, I had an idea, coming from plant/tree-treating.
Did you already think to try some preparation based on neem, or diluted neem-oil,  to keep off the different "interested animals" from the briquettes or pellets?
I do not know, how neem-products react when burnt. Would that be a problem? I think you would know about that, because the neem-trees are growing in India; and I cannot imagine there were never neem-tree-branches burnt. Negative things of that would be known.
When I looked in German by big G.: Neem in different preparations is told to ban a lot of different insects, as well ants  and cockroaches.

- Could a certain "neem-flavouring" be an interesting idea for your sugar-bound briquettes ??

- Pressed neem-cake, the rest of neem-oil-winning, could possibly be some additive to your briquettes ??

Kind Regards
Martin


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Dear Stovers,
we use starch paste as binder while making char briquettes. The paste
is made by dissolving starch in boiling water. These briquettes have
to be dried for about 4 days before they can be sold. In the case of
biomass briquettes, the lignin in the biomass acts as a binder because
it melts when pressure is applied to the biomass. There is no need to
dry these briquettes after they have been made. Can you suggest a
binder having similar properties for making char briquettes? Sugar
melts at about 100 C, and India produces a lot of it, but briquettes
contaning sugar would attract ants and cockroaches.
Yours
A.D.Karve
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Dr. A.D. Karve
Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)


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